The annual Mass opening the University of 91³Ô¹Ï’s 2009-10 academic year was celebrated Aug. 25 in the Joyce Center fieldhouse. 91³Ô¹Ï President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., presided and preached at the Mass, which was preceded by an academic procession of 91³Ô¹Ï faculty and followed by the traditional University picnic for students, faculty, staff and their families on the Hesburgh Library mall.